Treatment
Surgically installed device used to treat profound sensorineural hearing loss.
What is a cochlear implant?
This is the term for when food or liquid is inhaled into the lungs rather than swallowed and can lead to choking and pneumonia
What is aspiration?
A neutral label that refers to any variation of a language that is shared by a group of speakers
What is a dialect?
The frequency range of human hearing
What is 20-20,000Hz?
A therapy technique for fluency disorders which includes stuttering on purpose.
What is pseudostuttering?
The term for disordered voice
What is dysphonia?
The ability to alternate between two language variations
What is codeswitching?
The frequency at which something vibrates the most freely.
What is resonant frequency?
The most common style of hearing aid used (about 75% of patients wear this style.
What is RIC (receiver in the canal)?
Name a syndrome which is associated with sensorineural hearing loss
What is Neurofibromatosis type 2, Jervell Lange Nielson, Waardenburg, CHARGE, Usher's
The term for use of language and its social implications.
What is pragmatics?
The term for the production of sound when the vocal cords vibrate
What is Phonation?
Name an example of an ototoxic medication
What are aminoglycoside antibiotics, chemotherapy (platinum based especially), high doses of aspirin, quinine, loop diuretics
The name for aphasia that is described as Fluent. Named after the area of the brain that is impacted.
What is Wernicke's aphasia?
The study of speech sounds and how they go together
What is phonetics/phonology?
The term for the lowest frequency of vibration of a person's voice. All other frequencies in their speech are "layered" on top of this.
What is the fundamental frequency?
The name for the wave like contraction of muscles in the esophagus that helps move the food/liquid to the stomach
What is peristalsis?
Front, stopping, gliding, syllable deletion. These are all examples of this.
What are phonological processes
What are: socially shared system, rule govered, arbitrary code, generative process, dynamic
One way in which stiffness and mass specifically influence frequency in the auditory or speech systems
basilar membrane is stiffer at the basal end= high pitch hearing
stiffer/stretch vocal cords=higher pitch voice
larger chest cavities in males= lower pitch voice